Bronislaw Geremek imagines the future of Europe

Questioned by Christian Troubé in relation to the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the Polish historian and MEP Bronislaw Geremek analyses how young generations consider Europe. "They take peace among the different European nations for granted. So how to make Europe attractive when the failure of the constitutional treaty shows that the Union is at a crossroad ? The young generations need to find acts in the European project that trigger the imagination. Let them be given the opportunity to regain a European way of behaving: according importance to human dignity, to democracy, to tolerance, to human rights. Let there be a real European syndrome founded on the refusal of any authoritarian regime, any enclosure and any compartmentalisation. On the drawing board of the young generations we should find the notion of opening up, creating an open European society without denying our diversity."

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